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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...necessary to institute a push of the dimensions of the Manhattan Project, but some sort of combined administration for the missile-rocket development is needed. We may not look seriously on petty inter-service squabbles, but when they affect our attempts to conquer space, they must be controlled...
America, traditionally anti-colonial, has found itself in this sort of hot water before, particularly with England, and can probably extricate itself without permanently alienating the parties in the dispute. But France has come to see Algeria as the last stand of French power--power which has been disintegrating steadily since the war and which reached a low, but heroic ebb at Dien-Bien...
Couple Two is the uneasy union of a shy young scientist (Jeffrey Hunter) and the sort of neighborhood flirt (Patricia Owens) who likes to bring out the beast in men, and then feed it peanuts...
...book world where power-hungry men and love-hungry women struggle for survival and fulfillment." So say the ads. Actually, The Brain Pickers is a shoddy novel by Hallie Burnett, wife of Author Whit Burnett, that reveals very little about the publishing business, although it may start a sort of human Tangle Towns contest as to the possible identity of its leading, characters...
...novel? Is it a nightmare? Is it Superman-in the comic-strip or the Nietzschean version? During the book's opening passages-for 300 or 400 pages, that is-the reader cannot be sure. Then the truth emerges: Author Ayn Rand, a sort of literary Horsewoman of the Apocalypse, is smashing the world with half a million words in order to rebuild it according to her own philosophy. And that philosophy must be read to be disbelieved...